Alcohol-vapor lamp.



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ALCOHOL VAPOR LAMP.

APPLIOATION FILED mmzs, 1907.

Patented May 17, 1910.

ATTORNEY.

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ALCORN RECTOR, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOB, TO WARREN B. HUTOHINSON,TRUSTEE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

ALCOHOL-VAPOR LAMP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed. March 26, 1907.

Patented May 1'7, 1916). Serial No. 364,615.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALooRN Rno'ron, of the city, county, and State ofNew York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Alcohol'VaporLamps, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in lamps which burn alcohol orother liquid or fluid, in a vaporized or gasified condition, and theobject of this present invention is to produce an alcohol lamp which issimilar to the so called gas are lamp, and which has its parts arrangedin a simple and compact manner so as to thoroughly gasify the fuel andburn it in a mantle or group of mantles, more particularly a group.

To get the effect of the gas are lamp my invention is intended to groupthe mantles so that the pipes are inturned, thereby arranging themantles in relatively close proximity rather than to have them extendoutward and get the chandelier effect.

To these ends my invention consists of certain features of constructionand combinations of parts which will be hereinafter described andclaimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar letters and figures of referenceindicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of the lamp embodying my invention.Fig. 2 is a detail sectional plan showing how the fuel pipes diverge,and Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail of the valve and initial heating deviceof the lamp.

The lamp is intended to be hung from the ceiling or other support, andto this end the fountain 10 which can be of any approved sort, isprovided with a suspending hook 11, and with the drop fuel pipe 12 whichconnects with the valve casing 13, and this can be of any approved kind,and is controlled by the valve 1 1, which also may be of any usual type,and the valve has an elongated stem lt long enough to extend out throu hthe housing of the lamp, which will e hereinafter referred to.

The casing 13 has below the valve diverging or radiating parts 15 inwhich are sockets to receive the ends of the fuel pipes 16, which arepreferably arranged in a radial manner as shown in Fig. 2, and thesepipes are bent over at their outer ends at at 17, and connected withBunsen tubes 18, these extending inward beneath the pipes 16,. andhaving terminal bends 19 which connect with the mantles 20, the latterbeing hung on the Bunsen tubes in any preferred way. I have shown thebent parts 17 and 19 as illustrating the most simple manner ofconnecting the pipes 16, 18, and the mantles 20, but obviously any usualpipe connections can be substituted for those shown, without in theleast affecting the invention. The Bunsen tubes 18 can be of anypreferred kind, and should have the usual et delivery and air iii-take.

To start the lamp, a cup 21 is used which contains alcohol or otherheating medium, and this cup is attached directly to the under side ofthe casing 13, so that the fuel which is admitted through the casing 13is gasifled from the heat of the fuel in the cup 21 until the generatorsare heated, after which the heat rising from the mantles keeps the parts16 hot, and the fuel is thereafter thoroughly gasified as it isdelivered to the mantles.

Obviously any suitable housing can be used, but I prefer the kind shown,and above the housing I arrange upon the pipe 12 a guard 22, to preventtoo much heat from rising against the fountain 12, or againstsurrounding material or parts. The housing proper 23, can be of anyapproved design, and it is secured to the pipe 12 through the medium ofan open or spider collar 24:. The lamp has a suitable globe 25,preferably provided with air in-lets 26, and the globe is hinged as at27 to the housing 23, and is secured by a suitable catch 28.

It is evident that the housing and the accessories form no part of thelamp proper, and can be changed as desired.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent 1. A lamp of the kind described, comprising avertical fuel supply pipe connecting at its lower end with a series ofhorizontally radiating pipes having downward bends at their outer ends,a bunsen connected with each radiating pipe and extending inwarddirectly beneath and parallel with the same, said bunsens terminating attheir inward ends in downward bends, and mantle supports secured to thedownward bends of the bunsens in such manner that each mantle support isdirectly beneath both the downward bend of the bunsen and the horizontalfuel pipe above it.

2. A lamp of the kind described, comprising a vertical drop pipe havinga valve therein, and merging at its lower end into horizontallyradiating branch pipes having downward bends, bunsens secured to thesaid branch pipes and extending inward directly beneath and parallelwith the same, said bunsens terminating in downward bends, mantlesupports secured to the downward bends of the bunsens, a single housinginclosing the aforesaid structure, and a valve stem. operating the valveand extending out through the housing.

3. A lamp of the kind described, comprising a vertical fuel supply pipeconnecting wlth a source of fuel supply and termlnatmg 20 at its lowerend in a head, said head being connected with a fuel pan suspendeddirectly beneath the head, a series of horizontally radiating pipeshaving downward bends at their outer ends, a. bunsen connected with 25each radiating pipe and extending inward directly beneath and parallelwith the same, said bunsens terminating at their inward ends in downwardbends, and mantle supports secured to the downward bends of the atbunsens.

ALCORN HECTOR.

lVitnesses WARREN B. HUTOHINsON, M. G. ODONNELL.

